It's out already in Australia and basically the game totally goes to shit about 1 level after the demo and quick look. There's fuck all variation in the enemies and the ones that you do have aren't particularly challenging, they've taken their combat system from God of War 1, instead of having the enemies be agile or challenging to fight they've instead just got 50 billion hit points each and you stand there just slashing away at them forever.
On top of this the game has an over-reliance on bullshit jumping puzzles over instant death pits, these aren't too bad in a game when used in moderation but when it comprises the majority of the platforming it just stops being any fun and starts pissing you off. What's even worse is during these sequences the game often likes to take control of your camera and zoom out to show you all the pretty things they've put into the environment, which whilst very nice, just got you killed because you can't actually see what the hell what you're doing while it's zoomed out so far.
Also if you are planning on buying this game you'd better fucking love QTE's, the game has a metric ton of these and outside of the combat ones to either Absolve or punish them every single one of them will cause your instant death if you press the wrong button, which means its back to the start of the QTE. The punish/absolve system is also quite interesting, in that despite all of the options on the tree the combat in the game is actually quite shallow and there's only about 3 or so attacks that you'll actually end up using, most fights just come down to spamming the biggest heavy attack if you're fighting one of the big daemons or spamming the biggest light attack if you're fighting groups. Add this to billion HP enemies and you're left the distinct impression that the game would have been better if they just started on a QTE and had you bash circle for 10 hours instead of designing a game.
This would certainly be the case with the Fraud level (seriously go watch the video it’s on giant bomb somewhere) You can quite literally see where the designers ran out of money and time and instead of having a stage it’s just a series of annoying challenge arenas, the kind of thing that Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry like to throw in as an optional extra has been inserted into the main game in order to pad the game and cover up that it was rushed out the door and they never actually got around to making the Fraud level.
People have been calling Dante’s Inferno a God of War clone, but that’s not entirely accurate, what it is a fairly shoddy God of War reproduction made by people who haven’t really understood what made the series good, and haven’t followed it’s evolution, so Dante’s Inferno plays like a shoddy knock off of God of War 1 with a lot more bullshit deaths from dodgey platforming sections or QTE’s and none of the cheesy fun that comes from watching a character like Kratos act like a hilarious spiteful and belligerent dickhead to ancient Greece.
Seriously, I liked the demo as well and I bought the game on the strength of it and the quick look. The game doesn’t live up to it’s opening.
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